House of the Day: All the Details in Bed Stuy

Today’s house, at 772 Quincy Street in Bedford Stuyvesant, has lots of lovely original details. The photos reveal that much. They don’t reveal a whole lot else though, leaving open some questions about what else we’re dealing with here and what kind of shape it’s in.

The details in question include wall moldings, elaborate plaster decorations, ceiling medallions, original window and door moldings, pocket doors, slate mantels with their rare original faux painting intact, and a pier mirror on the parlor floor. Much of it looks to be in good shape.

The three-story house, 20 feet wide, is set up as three floor-through apartments. The bottom two floors have one bedroom each, the top floor has two, one of them small. There’s an additional “sun room” on the parlor floor.

The listing doesn’t go into too much detail, but presumably it needs the usual mechanical updating and possibly more. The listing copy calls the property a “pre-construction” sale and “an amazing opportunity for customization.” No kitchen or bathroom is pictured.

What that more might be: The house is a two-family, not a three, according to PropertyShark, so a lender might balk at closing unless the third kitchen is removed. The DOB also shows no permits, so hopefully the extension is original and doesn’t need to be legalized.

(Incidentally, the house is in lis pendens, but that shouldn’t affect a sale — and good for the longtime owner for listing it with a retail broker.)

Interestingly, we featured this as a house of the day back in 2006, and the one complete room depicted there looks quite nice, with a gleaming hardwood floor.

In any case, this house — listed by Corcoran brokers Anthony Morris and Lisa James — has piqued our interest. Anyone seen it? What do you think of the pictures, and the asking price of $995,000?

772 Quincy Street [Corcoran] GMAP
Photos by Corcoran